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The Beer

Year Round Seasonal & Occasional Hard Seltzers & Hard Sodas

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Shorthorn

American Pale Ale

Tasting Notes: 

This fine brew starts off with lemon and grapefruit notes on the front end, followed by spicy tones, and a clean, soft, bitterness, and finishes with a touch of malt sweetness.  Shorthorn, like its namesake, is a gentle giant that commands attention!

 
About the Name:

You’ve probably heard about the top secret military listening post that once operated in and around the brewery complex.  But long before the military found its way to Vint Hill, this place was renown for an operation more quintessentially Fauquier - and if you look out our taproom windows you’ll see a reminder of this history.  

 
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About the Name: 

Three large cattle barns and silo stand out not only from their surroundings, but also from other rural barns in the county.  This is because in 1910 Mitchell Harrison, the owner of what was a 1600 acre country estate that included Vint Hill and Buckland farms, aspired to carry on the work of Virginia’s pioneer cattle kings by breeding and improving the American Shorthorn. 

A breed indispensable to the early settlers for its milk, meat, and ability to pull a plow, the Shorthorn was a speckled and blocky beauty.  Its first introduction in Virginia coincides with its earliest development in England in 1783—a matter of pride for the Old Dominion.  

Harrison sought to return name and fame to Virginia with its superior fields of bluegrass, and his thoughtful and deliberate line breeding methods.  So with insurable, fireproof slate roofs on his new cattle barns built from oak timbers from woodlands on the farm, and with his pedigreed stock of studs from ‘Lespedeza Collynie’  to ‘Vint Hill Revolution’ (who graces our Shorthorn bottle) Harrison began his enterprise to raise the bar for this American breed.

Harrison’s family continued his operations until, according to local lore, they heard German voices over their short wave radio in 1942 and the US military showed a sudden interest in Vint Hill farm.  But that is another story.

Today, with our own investment in the old Vint Hill farm we’re happy to be part of Vint Hill’s next chapter in history.  Like Mitchell Harrison, we find ourselves driven by local pride and a desire for excellence as we endeavor to help Virginia raise the bar for fine ales and lagers.
 

 
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Ingredients: 

Ingredients:  Fauquier County Well Water, 2-Row Brewer’s Malt, Caramel 10L Malt, Special Roast Malt, Chinook Hops, Cascade Hops, Brewers Yeast.

 
Statistics: 

OG  13.7
FG  2.8
ABV  5.9%
IBU  44
SRM  11

 

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Old Bust Head
Brewing Co.

7134 Farm Station Road
Vint Hill, VA 20187
Ph:  540-347-4777

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